Medallists of the Royal Society
Date
1986
Sitter
Colin Richard Flood (British) , Meteorologist
Glenn Shutts (British) , Meteorologist
Peter Wilfred White (British) , Meteorologist
Kenneth Pollard (British) , Meteorologist
Timothy Noel Palmer (British) , Meteorologist
Denis Eric Rooke (1924 - 2008, British) , Industrialist
Rex Edward Richards (1922 - 2019, British) , Chemist
Eric Albert Ash (1928 - 2021, British) , Electrical engineer
Michael Mark Woolfson (1927 - 2019, British) , Physicist
John Maynard Smith (1920 - 2004, British) , Biologist
Alexander George Ogston (1911 - 1996, British) , Biochemist
Rudolf Ernst Peierls (1907 - 1995, British) , Physicist
John Bedford Stenlake (1919 - 2006, British) , Pharmacologist
Charles Alfred Taylor (1922 - 2002, British) , Physicist
Glenn Shutts (British) , Meteorologist
Peter Wilfred White (British) , Meteorologist
Kenneth Pollard (British) , Meteorologist
Timothy Noel Palmer (British) , Meteorologist
Denis Eric Rooke (1924 - 2008, British) , Industrialist
Rex Edward Richards (1922 - 2019, British) , Chemist
Eric Albert Ash (1928 - 2021, British) , Electrical engineer
Michael Mark Woolfson (1927 - 2019, British) , Physicist
John Maynard Smith (1920 - 2004, British) , Biologist
Alexander George Ogston (1911 - 1996, British) , Biochemist
Rudolf Ernst Peierls (1907 - 1995, British) , Physicist
John Bedford Stenlake (1919 - 2006, British) , Pharmacologist
Charles Alfred Taylor (1922 - 2002, British) , Physicist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Creator - Organisation
Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
Object type
Image reference
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 390mm
width (print): 390mm
Subject
Earth Sciences
> Meteorology
Engineering & Technology
> Industry
Chemistry
Engineering & Technology
> Electrical engineering
Physics
Biology
Chemistry
> Biochemistry
Medical Sciences
> Clinical medicine
> Pharmacology
> Meteorology
Engineering & Technology
> Industry
Chemistry
Engineering & Technology
> Electrical engineering
Physics
Biology
Chemistry
> Biochemistry
Medical Sciences
> Clinical medicine
> Pharmacology
Description
Formal group portrait of the 1986 medallists taken in the Royal Society Library at Carlton House Terrace. Including back row: Colin Richard Flood, Glenn Shutts, Peter Wilfred White, Kenneth Pollard, Denis Rooke FRS, Timothy Noel Palmer, Rex Richardson FRS, Eric Albert Ash FRS. Front row: Michael Mark Woolfson FRS, John Maynard Smith FRS, Alexander George Ogston FRS, Rudolph Peierls FRS, John Bedford Stenlake and Charles Alfred Taylor.
Signed by the artist studio on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘SGA 12019/4’ and stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’
Labelled ‘Medallists 1986 Back Row: Mr C. R. Flood, Dr G. Shutts, Dr P.F. White, Mr K. Pollard, Sir Denis Rooke, F.R.S., Dr T. N. Palmer, Sir Rex Richards, F.R.S. and Professor E. A. Ash, F.R.S. Front Row: Professor M. M. Woolfson, F.R.S., Professor J. Maynard-Smith, F.R.S., Dr A. G. Ogston, F.R.S., Sir Rudolph Peierls, F.R.S., Professor J. B, Stenlake and Professor C. A. Taylor.’
Mr Colin Richard Flood, Dr Glenn Shutts, Dr Peter Wilfred White, Kenneth Pollard and Dr Timothy Noel Palmer, all of the Meteorological Office, were jointly awarded the Esso Energy Award 1986, along with Michael John Priestley Cullen and Allan John Gadd (not photographed), for their development and introduction of a global weather forecasting model that provides accurate forecasts of wind and temperature for the civil aviation industry by which aircraft routes are selected to make maximum use of prevailing winds, resulting in considerable fuel savings.
Sir Denis Eric Rooke (1924-2008), British industrialist and engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978. He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1986 in recognition of his contributions to scientific developments in the gas industry.
Sir Rex Edwards Richards (1922-2019), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959 and served on its Council from 1973 to 1975. He was awarded the Davy Medal in 1976 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its application to chemical and biological problems and the Royal Medal in 1986 in recognition of his many contributions, both theoretical and instrumental, to nuclear magnetic resonance.
Sir Eric Albert Ash (1928-2021), British electrical engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977 and served on the Council from 1994 to 2002. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1986 in recognition of his outstanding researches on acoustic microscopy leading to wholly new techniques and substantial improvements in resolution of acoustic microscopes.
Michael Mark Woolfson (1927-2019), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. He was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1986 for the creation of algorithms including MULTAN and SAYTAN which are used world-wide to solve the majority of reported crystal structures.
Professor John Maynard Smith (1920-2004), British biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977 and served on its Council from 1991 to 1993. He was awarded the Darwin Medal in 1986 in recognition of his outstanding success in combining mathematics with biology to enhance our understanding of evolution, in particular the evolution of sex. He was given the Royal Medal in 1997 in recognition of his theoretical contributions to evolutionary biology, combining mathematics and biology to develop a sound understanding in such fields as population dynamics, paleobiology, ethology, behavioural ecology, bacteriology and genetics. As well as the Copley Medal in 1999 in recognition of his seminal contributions to evolutionary biology, including his experimental work on sexual selection, his important contributions to our understanding of ageing, his introduction of game theoretical methods for the analysis of complex evolutionary scenarios and his research into molecular evolution, both through his classic work on genetic hitchhiking, and with his more recent, ongoing work on bacterial population growth. He gave the Bernal lecture in 1980 on Science, ideology and myth.
Alexander George Ogston (1911-1996), British biochemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955. He was awarded the Davy Medal in 1986 in recognition of his early seminal proposal of the ways enzymes deal asymmetrically with symmetrical substrates and his later quantitative analysis of macromolecule interactions which elucidated polymer exclusion effects.
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (1907-1995), German-born British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945. He was given the Royal Medal in 1959 in recognition of his distinguished work on the theoretical foundations of high energy and nuclear physics. He was also awarded the Copley Medal in 1986 in recognition of his fundamental contributions to a very wide range of theoretical physics, and signal advances in proposing the probable existence of nuclear chain reactions in fissile materials.
Professor John Bedford Stenlake (1919-2006), Professor of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde. He was awarded the Mullard Medal in recognition of his design of Atracurium, a novel skeletal muscle relaxant for use in surgical anaesthesia.
Professor Charles Alfred Taylor (1922-2002), British physicist, formerly Professor of Physics in University College, Cardiff, and honorary Professor of Physics at the Royal Institution. He was awarded the Michael Faraday Medal in 1986 in recognition of his outstanding presentations of physics and applications of physics to the real world, aimed at all ages.
Signed by the artist studio on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘SGA 12019/4’ and stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’
Labelled ‘Medallists 1986 Back Row: Mr C. R. Flood, Dr G. Shutts, Dr P.F. White, Mr K. Pollard, Sir Denis Rooke, F.R.S., Dr T. N. Palmer, Sir Rex Richards, F.R.S. and Professor E. A. Ash, F.R.S. Front Row: Professor M. M. Woolfson, F.R.S., Professor J. Maynard-Smith, F.R.S., Dr A. G. Ogston, F.R.S., Sir Rudolph Peierls, F.R.S., Professor J. B, Stenlake and Professor C. A. Taylor.’
Mr Colin Richard Flood, Dr Glenn Shutts, Dr Peter Wilfred White, Kenneth Pollard and Dr Timothy Noel Palmer, all of the Meteorological Office, were jointly awarded the Esso Energy Award 1986, along with Michael John Priestley Cullen and Allan John Gadd (not photographed), for their development and introduction of a global weather forecasting model that provides accurate forecasts of wind and temperature for the civil aviation industry by which aircraft routes are selected to make maximum use of prevailing winds, resulting in considerable fuel savings.
Sir Denis Eric Rooke (1924-2008), British industrialist and engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978. He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1986 in recognition of his contributions to scientific developments in the gas industry.
Sir Rex Edwards Richards (1922-2019), British chemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1959 and served on its Council from 1973 to 1975. He was awarded the Davy Medal in 1976 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its application to chemical and biological problems and the Royal Medal in 1986 in recognition of his many contributions, both theoretical and instrumental, to nuclear magnetic resonance.
Sir Eric Albert Ash (1928-2021), British electrical engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977 and served on the Council from 1994 to 2002. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1986 in recognition of his outstanding researches on acoustic microscopy leading to wholly new techniques and substantial improvements in resolution of acoustic microscopes.
Michael Mark Woolfson (1927-2019), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. He was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1986 for the creation of algorithms including MULTAN and SAYTAN which are used world-wide to solve the majority of reported crystal structures.
Professor John Maynard Smith (1920-2004), British biologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977 and served on its Council from 1991 to 1993. He was awarded the Darwin Medal in 1986 in recognition of his outstanding success in combining mathematics with biology to enhance our understanding of evolution, in particular the evolution of sex. He was given the Royal Medal in 1997 in recognition of his theoretical contributions to evolutionary biology, combining mathematics and biology to develop a sound understanding in such fields as population dynamics, paleobiology, ethology, behavioural ecology, bacteriology and genetics. As well as the Copley Medal in 1999 in recognition of his seminal contributions to evolutionary biology, including his experimental work on sexual selection, his important contributions to our understanding of ageing, his introduction of game theoretical methods for the analysis of complex evolutionary scenarios and his research into molecular evolution, both through his classic work on genetic hitchhiking, and with his more recent, ongoing work on bacterial population growth. He gave the Bernal lecture in 1980 on Science, ideology and myth.
Alexander George Ogston (1911-1996), British biochemist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1955. He was awarded the Davy Medal in 1986 in recognition of his early seminal proposal of the ways enzymes deal asymmetrically with symmetrical substrates and his later quantitative analysis of macromolecule interactions which elucidated polymer exclusion effects.
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (1907-1995), German-born British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945. He was given the Royal Medal in 1959 in recognition of his distinguished work on the theoretical foundations of high energy and nuclear physics. He was also awarded the Copley Medal in 1986 in recognition of his fundamental contributions to a very wide range of theoretical physics, and signal advances in proposing the probable existence of nuclear chain reactions in fissile materials.
Professor John Bedford Stenlake (1919-2006), Professor of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde. He was awarded the Mullard Medal in recognition of his design of Atracurium, a novel skeletal muscle relaxant for use in surgical anaesthesia.
Professor Charles Alfred Taylor (1922-2002), British physicist, formerly Professor of Physics in University College, Cardiff, and honorary Professor of Physics at the Royal Institution. He was awarded the Michael Faraday Medal in 1986 in recognition of his outstanding presentations of physics and applications of physics to the real world, aimed at all ages.
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